The competition has three strands:

A company profile;
A corporate power case study;
An article on an instance of corporate crime.

Company profile:

Company profiles should be structured around these key sections: overview of the company; industry areas; market share; who, where, how much; history; corporate crimes; resistance. For examples of company profiles, see the Corporate Watch website: http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=402

Word limit: 3,000

Corporate power case study:

Research into the impact of corporate power and influence on a particular geographical place or industry sector. Themes to explore include undue influence on politicians and public authorities, lobbying, corruption, revolving doors and so on.

Word limit: 2,000

Article on corporate crime:

Research into where a corporate has broken, or has potentially broken, civil or criminal law, as a result of deliberate decisions or actions which were focused on expanding or continuing their core business and benefiting the corporation itself. This can be direct or indirect, by being complicit in these crimes. Corporate crimes include war crime, safety crime, financial crime, crimes against the consumer and so on.

Word limit: 1,000

All submissions must original and well referenced, clearly disclosing sources using footnotes or endnotes.

Practical details:

Compete submissions will be judged by an eminent panel made up of Corporate Watch members and independent researchers, journalists and others from outside the co-op.

Submissions should not exceed the word limit stipulated for each strand, but you are welcome to submit pieces for more than one strand.

The deadline for submissions is 30 April 2011.

Please send your submission to: contact(at-)corporatewatch.org.